Colvin Wayne Germany, 39, a man from Shreveport, Louisiana, died on April 24, 2021, in the Mooretown/Hollywood Heights area after a late-night confrontation on Theo Street turned violent. Earlier that day, according to later court testimony, he and his fiancée had been out drinking and using marijuana when an argument ignited after she saw messages on his phone from a woman he’d met on Tinder.
By the time they returned to the home they shared, the dispute had escalated into an ultimatum for him to leave, and when she stepped away briefly, she returned to find some of his belongings still piled outside and thousands of dollars in tax-refund money missing.
Not long after, relatives of his fiancée gathered and drove to Theo Street, parking across from the house near an abandoned property, lingering in the driveway and street as he came back for the rest of his things. He loaded containers into a red Chevy Cruze and climbed behind the wheel to leave. Before he could pull away, Dana Jamariyaa Combs walked up to the driver’s door and fired multiple shots through the window, killing him. Witnesses described Combs demanding the return of the missing money as he shot through the closed glass. Then, in a moment that stunned those watching, Combs opened the door, yanked Germany’s body out into the roadway, and drove off in the Cruze, leaving him in the middle of the street.
When officers arrived, they initially suspected a hit-and-run because the body lay on the pavement, but they quickly recognized the telltale wounds of gunfire. Police later located the Cruze a few blocks away near Impact Church on Broadway Avenue, its driver’s window blown out. Investigators searched intensely but could not find spent casings at the shooting scene, and no gun was recovered from the car, the other vehicle at the scene, or the nearby house connected to Combs’s family. An autopsy documented four gunshot wounds, including a fatal wound beneath the left ear; injuries to Germany’s hands were consistent with his hands being on the steering wheel when the bullets struck.
The case moved steadily through the courts. A Caddo Parish grand jury indicted Dana Jamariyaa Combs for second-degree murder in August 2021. At trial in March 2024, prosecutors presented testimony from responding officers and key witnesses, along with forensic evidence and jail communications showing that, after his arrest, Combs pressed people involved in the case not to testify and to back away from earlier statements. Combs took the stand and claimed self-defense, saying Germany had pointed a gun at him from inside the car, but the state countered with evidence and testimony challenging that account and highlighting the physical evidence suggesting the window was up when the shots shattered it. A plea offer of manslaughter for a 40-year sentence was made during trial and rejected. The jury deliberated about an hour before unanimously finding him guilty as charged of second-degree murder.
On March 20, 2024, a district judge imposed the mandatory sentence for second-degree murder in Louisiana: life in prison at hard labor without the benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence. Combs appealed, but on April 9, 2025, the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal affirmed both the conviction and the life sentence, leaving the case with a convicted and sentenced offender rather than an open search for suspects.
